Write up about FR24 CEO Fredrik Lindahl and Flightradar24 Company

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Published January 30, 2014 06:30http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/innovation/forskning_utveckling/article3801435.ece

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Fredrik Lindahl, CEO of Flight Radar 24, has an app that allows the user to find out which aircraft it is looking at the sky. By summer the company will release a new app that contains more social functions.

Each month Flight Radar 24's website between five and six million visitors.3,000 volunteers around the world.Over three million people have purchased an app.The last financial year, sales amounted to 25 million.

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Many are interested in flight. Each month Flight Radar 24's website between five and six million visitors. Over three million people have purchased an app.

- We have topped the list of the best selling reseapparna in more than 140 countries and sales continue to increase, says CEO Fredrik Lindahl.

The last financial year, sales amounted to 25 million.

Major passenger plane is displayed on a map in the app. Tap on a plane and a photo comes up along with data about the position and route. Planets path can be followed in a 3d view. It is also possible to identify the plane by pointing your phone towards the sky.

Data about the plan captured by a network of radio receivers with 3,000 volunteers around the world. They receive the aircraft's so-called ADS-B signals with information about the identity, location and speed.

The information is then sent automatically via the Internet to Flighradar24's servers.

Where it is combined with other data it collects, such as on airlines' fleets and information from the airline departure boards.

The goal is total control over all the world flight.

To improve radio coverage has the highest priority.

- It is a race where the best coverage wins. We have a head start as we want to keep, says CEO Fredrik Lindahl.

To speed up the expansion, the company builds its own radio receiver that is sent out free to volunteers who sign up on the website. Interest is not faulty.

- We get about 50 entries per day, says Fredrik Lindahl.

Underserved areas prioritized.

- But we also want to see photos of were they supposed to place the antenna before we send off a receiver, said Michael Robertson, one of the company founders.

Each week, the network is growing by about 80 points, he estimates.

Seven of the nine people on Flighradar 24 works with development.

This summer, a new app that will contain more social features. This year also launched the first service that can only be addressed to airlines.

- They use us already and I have personally seen that Boeing has a large screen with Flighradar 24 of his control room for Dreamliner, says Fredrik Lindahl.

With the new service, they should be able to easily see where they own the plan is, and relax on your own data if, for example, cargo, crew and fuel level.

FACTS next: PositioningApproximately 60 percent of the world's airplane is equipped with ADS-B transponders. New legislation in both Europe and the U.S., the proportion is increasing over time. The aim is to increase flight safety by the pilots can see other planes in the vicinity.In order to position the aircraft to an older type of transponder multilateration. It is based on the difference in time it takes for the planet's signal to reach four or more receivers. However, these must be sufficiently dense. Today, Flightradar24 method used in most of Europe and parts of North America, but as the network grows, it can be used in more parts of the world.

Flight Radar? 24Location: Stockholm.Founded: 2012.Employees: 9.Turnover in 2013 (split financial year) 25 million.

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